Notifications are big in screen size & data volume - Collapse them instead

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Pitch

Hello,
Notifications about boosts, favorites... of a post on Mastodon can be huge in vertical screen size & probably also create unnecessary data volume. Especially when a post was long & you get several boosts / favorites, it can quickly become hard to keep an overview.

Some other users on Mastodon and in the 2 suggestion threads below agree that notifications are too big. Some users even go as far as using extension to try and improve this themselves.

Suggestion: If notifications were collapsed to only show a summary or the date and could be expanded / loaded with a click, that would create a much better user experience in my opinion.

This is an example:

Another option, to only hide or thumbnail the media has been suggested by:
#27067
#29488

Motivation

Users & the environment would benefit

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This will be changed soon with the introduction of the grouped notifications in the UI.